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Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by dsiegel2275 »

bruhbruhbruh wrote: post #573
dsiegel2275 wrote: post #330

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It isn't supernatural, trust me. Very simply: I set a goal, understood what prerequisites I needed to fill, and just worked hard to get there. I put in about 5 - 10 hours a week in the first half of the year working through the OCW courses, then probably 10-15 hours a week during the CMU class. I work fulltime as a software engineer, so my 'class' time was usually a couple hours a night, after the wife and kids go to…

I struggle to focus after a full day of work and other tasks. I especially struggle to focus on technical work, and learning new things is difficult. How do you have the energy to sit down for another few hours of technical work after a full day of work?

I'm not gonna lie, putting in those couple hours can just be plain tough. Some days it is the absolute last thing that I want to be doing at 9 o'clock in the evening.

But I motivate myself by focusing on the long-term impact for my career, and thus the benefits for myself and my family:

Coupling my expertise in software engineering with deep knowledge in an adjacent field such as ML I believe can open up new opportunities and give me the freedom to take my career along paths that weren't possible before. That is what I remind myself when I sit down to work homework problems late in the evening.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by em-bee »

em-bee wrote: post #577
elbear wrote: post #550

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What app did you find for Pharo? What attracts me most about red-lang is its cross-platform GUI story (I know that the iOS back-end is not implemented yet). You can do so much with so little code. It looks like a great platform for this. The syntax also helps.

PTerm, a command terminal ( https://github.com/lxsang/PTerm ). basically my goal is to replace every tool i use with an alternative written in a language i enjoy playing with. eg. i use supmua written in ruby for email (though the killer feature of submua is not ruby but how it handles email by tags and search buffers). i am eyeing that browser written in lips that was posted here a while ago (but i have not tried it…

on red, i do like its syntax. very minimalistic, yet powerful.

i hope, as it matures, someone will create a neat application that is useful for me.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by antod »

maceurt wrote: post #532

I learned Spring MVC. Interesting framework for back end web development. It was hard at first to use Spring, coming from Django which is a lot easier to start using, however I prefer it in a lot of ways to Django. The controllers are pretty intuitive to make and I much prefer them to views in Django, and the actual database querying and using while at first is a lot harder than Django, it makes a lot more sense afte…

Did you search for it? :)

http://springpython.webfactional.com/

Not sure about it's activity though....

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by em-bee »

em-bee wrote: post #577
elbear wrote: post #550

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What app did you find for Pharo? What attracts me most about red-lang is its cross-platform GUI story (I know that the iOS back-end is not implemented yet). You can do so much with so little code. It looks like a great platform for this. The syntax also helps.

PTerm, a command terminal ( https://github.com/lxsang/PTerm ). basically my goal is to replace every tool i use with an alternative written in a language i enjoy playing with. eg. i use supmua written in ruby for email (though the killer feature of submua is not ruby but how it handles email by tags and search buffers). i am eyeing that browser written in lips that was posted here a while ago (but i have not tried it…

the browser i meant is the Next Browser written in Lisp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by singingfish »

Zhyl wrote: post #8

Weirdly, perl. I found myself on a client site in a locked down environment with only the Windows version of GIT installed. Powershell disabled, no other programs allowed. I had to produce reports on the log files for this machine, but had to obfuscate information before taking it off the server. I discovered that git had bash installed quite early on, so my initial automation and reporting was based on UNIX pipeline…

perl is a fine language. It scales quite well from terse one liners to large (and with appropriate application of discipline, readable) applications. It's a shame it's so unfashionable at the moment.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by j_b_s »

yesenadam wrote: post #403

LaTeX/TeX. I'd written one maths paper before using LaTeX, and used QuickLaTeX on my website for a while, but early this year I read or looked at almost every available book on LaTeX and TeX. (There aren't that many) Plus consulted TeX StackExchange a lot every day for a while, which has most of the people who wrote the best books and packages answering questions, it's amazing. Also got better at using TikZ within La…

Nice! Look into tufte style class for book layouts. It's particular and if you like that type of particular then you'll love it.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by webmaven »

lucb1e wrote: post #363
amenod wrote: post #322

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Yeah... the problem is that SO is becoming the only place where people hang out, and it's really difficult to find active programming forums nowadays. Except, as you say, SO is not a forum, it's a QA site. Which means there is no place left for discussions. While I certainly use SO a lot to find those small bits of missing knowledge, I think it has made search for help (in specific cases) actually much harder.

Agreed! I moved to HN and SO after two forums slowly died. I have some friends from those forums, but a chat group is different from a forum with dozens or sometimes hundreds of active topics every day. Not just in activity, but also the kind of things you can talk about. I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap. I don't always have a place to post things. Blogging doesn't exactly work without an audience. T…

> I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap.

Reddit?

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by j_b_s »

a_bonobo wrote: post #462

Things I started to learn: - knitr, as I got sick of LaTeX (I always ended up fiddling with the figure placement forever until it was just right). I also moved all my R work into RStudio, which is a HUGE time saver and the Projects function has saved me a few times. - snakemake, for reproducible bioinformatics workflows, integrates nicely with HPC systems, and is very beautiful (the few times I've used it) - I went t…

Curious to know why you landed on snakemake for bioinformatics? Were you considering other workflow engines?

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by a_bonobo »

j_b_s wrote: post #589
a_bonobo wrote: post #462

Things I started to learn: - knitr, as I got sick of LaTeX (I always ended up fiddling with the figure placement forever until it was just right). I also moved all my R work into RStudio, which is a HUGE time saver and the Projects function has saved me a few times. - snakemake, for reproducible bioinformatics workflows, integrates nicely with HPC systems, and is very beautiful (the few times I've used it) - I went t…

Curious to know why you landed on snakemake for bioinformatics? Were you considering other workflow engines?

I settled on snakemake because my corner of bioinformatics had the most prepared 'recipes' for that one, plus it played nice with our cluster's weird local flavor of SLURM
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